"You're wishin' too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughta be.”
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Walking a hundred miles in tobacco skin.

Yesterday I went to Prime Outlets to shop with Danny and it was awesome. I bought five pieces of clothing from Wetseal for less than $30! Aeropostale wasn’t as cheap but their clothes were all so nice! Got a hoodie and two tees from there. And I got two wrislets and a wallet from Coach. I think I shall buy my mom a nice Coach bag once I get my pay.

Argh I’m spending way more than I earn. At this rate I’ll probably go into debt real soon.

We went clubbing in downtown Orlando last night! It was a real eye-opener for us. The people in the clubs here are completely uninhabited. Because there was a free flow of alcohol, everyone was so drunk and dry-humping random strangers and dancing outrageously. Singapore is like so mild compared to here. And because I’m a good girl, I didn’t drink at all. Yup I’m still keeping to my new year resolution of abstaining from alcohol (apart from the occasional glass). Needless to say, there were many fights inside, but that’s okay because about three police cars were stationed outside the club. It must be a real common thing here. And a drug dealer tried to sell Andrew some drugs! Haha! All in all, it was so so fun! The music was great and the DJ was actually engaging the crowd and getting us to do random stuff. I can’t wait to go again!


YAY IT’S MY OFF-DAY TOMORROW!

The only thing that got me through the day was reminding this to myself constantly while I worked. The anticipation I felt was the same as when it was my last day of work at my previous two companies after working there for a couple of months.

But it’s only my second day of work here, and it’s just one day off.

Man I feel like a maid.

My first day of work was terrible. I was scheduled from 11-7.30pm and spent the whole day standing outdoors tending to the condiments counter. So I stood for about eight hours straight, refilling ketchup, cutlery and even cups for the drink dispenser. It rained three times and because I was outside all the while, I got drenched three times, and then dry again under the sun.

The rain here is crazy. Like you can actually see the direction of the rain because the winds blowing it are so strong. Hurricane-like, actually. And it just comes down on you without warning, there’s no such thing as a drizzle here – it’s either sunny or it pours. Like, “poof!”, suddenly it starts pouring.

I felt so pathetic and tragic having to work alone in the rain that when I went back, I started crying with Dorene. Her job’s pretty bad too and she almost called the international coordinator to request for a transfer. We went down to the guys’ room and binged on ice-cream and beer.

Today was much better because I was positioned to do the front line which was refilling the food for the buffet trays. At least I had people to talk to and shelter to stand under.

Typing is really painful for me because I broke two of my nails while trying to lock the drink dispenser, my left hand feels kind of starched and stiff because it’s been touching bleach solution all day, and the tips of my fingers are visibly burnt and reddish because I had to carry hot hot trays with my bare hands. And when I mean hot, I mean like 165 degrees hot. OUCH.

I must treasure and enjoy every single second of my off-day tomorrow! I’m so glad Mei’s off with me. Yippee. I’m going to do my chores and catch up with people at home then I’m going to shop till I drop! Must definitely make all my work worth it and get good buys!






Life as a rollercoaster ride.

You feel the sense of excitement in the days preceding the event as you do when the roller-coaster chugs its way up.

You think you know all about your ride already, you’ve seen the height of the rollercoaster, you’ve seen how people reacted when it came down, yet you still feel a sense of unknown the higher it gets.

When it finally reaches the top, and faced with the steep drop ahead of you, you’re completely overwhelmed with fear, despite knowing that you’ll be okay. At this point, you may regret for a brief second, for choosing this decision to take the ride.

However, before you even know it, your cart speeds down within seconds, and your heart skips a beat in exhilaration.

When you reach the bottom, you realize all your worries were unfounded and that you actually enjoyed the whole thing.






This chalet was probably the most indoor chalet we ever had. Just bumming around, playing mahjong, trying to beat the high-scores in the arcade, and eating eating and more eating. I think we all probably gained like a few kgs.

But it's okay because I'll definitely lose the weight when I start working. Super excited! A little apprehensive though, because some of my friends who are there already are complaining that the work is tough. Like you hafta stand for more than 10hrs under the scorching sun. And the sun in Florida is way hotter than Singapore. Oh well, hope our employers will be kind to us! Haha okay I sound like a maid. Anyway I still have a lot of things to settle! Like pack, change money, buy travel insurance, buy work clothes and groceries. I'm such a great big giant procrastinator arghh. Wish I had a butler to do all these for me.


It's 5.01am and I still can't sleep! My body clock's getting all topsy-turvy. Think I'll just hang around till about 10am, take a nap, then wake up just in time to go to school for the photoshoot. It'll be straight to chalet after that where I probably won't sleep anyway, so no use trying to straighten my body clock up. Besides, since I'm already accustomed to the 12-hr difference in US time, I might as well stay that way. No jet lag for me for sure when I go there!


I shifted the entry because I realised I'm still not very comfortable with this blog where the whole world can see what you've written. Blogger should have a private setting like LJ!


Back after a year-long hiatus (:

A big THANK YOU to my brother who did up this blogskin for me from scratch!